Gorilla, My Love
- New York: Random House, 1972
New York: Random House, 1972. Very Good/Very Good-. New York: Random House, 1972. First Edition with full RH number line. Octavo (21.5cm); publisher's cloth in brown unclipped dust jacket; ix,[3],177pp. Jacket a bit soil-spotted and margins rather chipped and worn, especially along top edge of rear panel, spine cocked, rubber-stamp to front free endpaper, else Very Good, internally clean and sound.
The Black Arts author and activist's first collection of short stories, including her masterpieces "Blues Ain't No Mockin Bird," "The Lesson," and "Raymond's Run." Cade Bambara grew up in several neighborhoods of New York City and New Jersey and specialized in "capturing the fast-paced vernacular language of urban black people" (The Columbia Companion to the Twentieth Century American Short Story, Vol. I (2004), p. 31).
The Black Arts author and activist's first collection of short stories, including her masterpieces "Blues Ain't No Mockin Bird," "The Lesson," and "Raymond's Run." Cade Bambara grew up in several neighborhoods of New York City and New Jersey and specialized in "capturing the fast-paced vernacular language of urban black people" (The Columbia Companion to the Twentieth Century American Short Story, Vol. I (2004), p. 31).